Knee Arthritis? Why Your Running Days May Not Be Over Yet

When someone asks whether running is bad for your knees, they are usually worried that running will “wear their knees out”, or they are getting aches and pains in their knees when they run, or they’ve been told they have arthritis in their knees, and they don’t want to make it worse. Let's take a look at all of these concerns.

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📚 Chapters in this video:
00:00:00 Introduction
00:00:45 Defining knee "wear-and-tear"
00:01:14 Does running cause knee osteoarthritis?
00:02:30 Can running improve knee health?
00:04:39 So why do we still get knee injuries?
00:08:08 Running with knee arthritis
00:15:30 Injured? How we can help

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References:
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Baumgarten, B. (2007) “To run or not to run: a post-meniscectomy qualitative risk analysis model for osteoarthritis when considering a return to recreational running” Journal of Manual & Manipulative Therapy 15(1): 1E-15E.
Sayegh, E.T. et al. (2022) “Up to One-Half of Runners Return to Running One Year After Arthroscopic Partial Meniscectomy” Arthroscopy, Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation 4(4): e1505-e1511.
Coburn, S.L. et al. (2023) “Is running good or bad for your knees? A systematic review and meta-analysis of cartilage morphology and composition changes in the tibiofemoral and patellofemoral joints" Osteoarthritis and Cartilage 31(2): 144-157.
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